The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1877, Page 6

“a 6. NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. — JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR. : THE DAILY HERALD, published every daytin the year, n ‘cents per copy (sunday excluded), Ten dollars per ‘or at rate of one dol ar per month for or gen loss r ett a or five dollars for six mom Sunday . ot pity wot haniuons,tiews latters oF telegrapble despitches must Mulrensed New Vouk Hikas. ancy ould be_propert elected corsmunica'ions will net be returned, -— eee OFFICE—NU. 112 SOUTHS SIXTH é 2 LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE SEW YORK Hi2RALD— BO, 46 FLEET SPREET. fAnis OFFICK—AVENUE DE L'OPELKA. NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. ubscriptions and advertisements, will: ve received and, low Ei forwarded on the sume terms as GERMANIA THEATRE. dad PARK THEATRE.—Ovn Boanvixe House BROADWAY THEATRE. UNION SQUARE THEATRE —Miss Mottox. HELLER’S THEATBE.— NIBLO’S GARDEN.—A BROOKLYN ACADEM GILMORE’# GARDE) OLYMPIC THEATRE. BOWERY THEATRE. D tax WoRup. nant or Vewicn, THIRD AVENUE THE SAN FRANCISCO MI. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, EAGLE THEATRE—Avax, EGYPTIAN HALL.—Sxnsa' PARISIAN VARIETILS. COLUMBIA OPERA HO TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORR, THURSDAY, FELRUARY 1, “NOTICE 10 COUNTRY DEALERS, — Tho Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Ka@road and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A.M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ot the Heraxo as far West as Harrisburgzand South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at aequarter-past six A. M. and Wasbington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the: probabilities zre that the weather in New York tortay will be warmer, cloudy and rainy, possibly with brisk winds, followed by slightly falling temperature and gradually clearing weather toward night. Wat Srreer Yesterpay.—Gold opened at 10512 and closed at 10514. Money on call loaned at 3 and 4 per cent. Speculation in coal shares was attended by wide fluctuations, with a recovery from the lowest prices at the close. Government bonds were a shade weaker, al- though in fair demand, and some railway mort- Gages were lower. A Jast or Faitures in this city during Janu- ary is published in another column, and affords rather doleful reading, especially to creditors. Raitroap Law is always confusing when the lawyers expound it in open court. The Lake Shore proceedings yesterday were u0 exception to the rule. Wuerr Is Anperman with his mi- sority report about car heating? Where is Alderman Cole? Everybody kuows where the cur presidents can be “seen.” Cow Twat THE Brokers’ PRAYER MEETINGS are so largely attended only shows that business is dull in the strect. As soon as stock sales are active operators will be more eager to serve Mammon than at present. Tue Dancers attending the practice of in- trusting letters to irresponsible persons are shown by the investigation had at the Post Office yes- terday. People should mail their own letters to insure the safety of their missives. Tne Price of charity coal is a subject which ‘Interests every person who sends his mite to the distributing societics. Why coal intended for the destitute should cost more:than the market tate is a problem we should like to see explained. ‘Tne Fate of the Newark burglars, Ryan and Oschwald, is sealed, Governor Bedle having refused to convene the Court of (Pardons in their behalf. It is to be regretted thatsthe New Jersey authorities did not take action in:regard to Ryan, as he evidently does not merit the penalty of death for his share of the crime+that led to the murder of Policeman Brock. Tue Rivar Lies of Harlem steawnboats are secking a consolidation of interests, and an in- junction against such act is sought by an indig- nant stockholder on the ground that:a monopoly would result. While the complainantmay be right on that point we are not so sure that consolida- tion would not putastop to the racing;now so peril- ously indulged in on the East River. That ought to have been stopped long Hoummocks oF Ice, deep pools of dirty water and a wide expanse of mud render our streets intolerable and the condition of the pavements gtows worse and worse every day. The pretence that the appropriation for ¢ ing the streets is exhausted will not exonerate the Police Com- missioners from blame. If the work were prop- erly carried on in all seasons of the year the ap- propriations would be ample, for then the streets would never be so dirty as to need the extraor. dinary effort now necessar; Toe Weatner. lepression which has been moving eastward from the Rocky Moun- tains during the past few days is now central in | the upper lake region and Western Can High winds prevail throagh the lake districts and the Upper Ohio Valley, and a vain area extends | northward from the Ohio River and over the exstern lake region, the Middle States and a portion of the St. Lawrence Valley. The highest pressure is over the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States. The temperature continucs high throughout the West and Northwest, but is reli tively low in the Southern States and in Lower Cuuada. Rains continue to prevail on the Pa- tific const, but the storms which they attend ex- nd the greater part of their moisture west of the Rocky Mountains and present themselves on this side of the divide with very light pr tion until they advance over the lake re; Thence eastward they are again att by more or less — heavy rains, = ‘The rivers of the Ohio system are still falling, but will probably rise slightly w ith the present rainfall. ‘The Lower Mississippi con to rise slowly, but will begin to fall during : days, while the upper riyer will un- houbtedly rise somewhat with a probable move- went of the jee. ‘The weather in New York to- - will be cloudy, rainy and warm, possi- with brivk winds, followed by slightly falling tinue the next f NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Latest Louisiana Disclosures. The astounding testimony of the last two deys, and especially that part of it given yes- terday, explodes all the chances of Mr. Hayes to be the next President unless the credi- bility of the witnesses can be overthrown. ‘The evidence taken yesterday by the House Committee on Privileges and Elections wili excite even deeper interest than the proceed- ings of the Electoral Commission, because this evidence, unless successfully impugned, will compel the commissioa to reject the action of a returning board steeped in vil- lany and perjury. No body of honest men, clothed with authority to decide, could make themselves accomplices after the fact of such rascalities as have been sworn to since the beginning of this week. Not even Mr. Merton and Mr. Garfield will vote in the commission to ccunt Louisiana for Hayes if the credit of these witnesses is not im- peached, But inasmuch as Hayes cannot be declared elected without the votes of all the disputed States he will have no chance at all unless this fatal testimony from Louisiana can be demolished. It is satis- factory to know that it is to be examined and judged by an upright and competent tribunal. It is probable enough that the character of these witnesses will appear to no great ad- vantage after a thorough scrutiny. They were accomplices in the traudsto which they testify, and it goes without saying that they were not cmployed on account of their per- soual probity. It is in the natural course of things that J. Madison Wells should have satisfied himself that they had no virtue to lose before making them his *‘pals” in a deliberate scheme to falsify the vote of Louisiana. Honest men are not sought for such a service. We are accordingly prepared to expect that their characters will not appear to advantage on investigation. But that does not necessarily dis- credit tacir testimony. In courts of justice important convictions are often obtained on the testimony of accomplices who turn State's evidence. It happens in this Louisi- ana case that the statements of the witnesses are supported by documentary proofs. The committee which is conducting this investi- gation are in possession of some of the garbled and doctored returns, which bear on their face conclusive evidence that they have been altered. The committee is also in possession of written communications which passed between the parties to the frauds, and the testimony of the witnesses tallies with the suspicions and presumptions neces- sarily arising out of the documentary evi- dence. What is sworn to by the witnesses makes the documents intelligible, and confirms the impressions which they alone would have made. Moreover, the wit- nesses did not volunteer their testimony ; it was extorted. At first they refused to an- swer, and one of the most important of them is still stubbornly contumacious on the ground that he could not answer without criminating himself—a refusal on that ground being a confession of guilt. An- other confirmation of the evidence exists in the previous bad character of Wells and his associates. General Sheridan, a few years since, denounced Wells in an official com- munication as ‘a rascal and thoroughly dishonest man, who had not a friend that was not a thief.” Con- \ gressional committees of investigation with republican majorities have again and again, in recent years, exposed the frauds, perjuries and subornation of perjury practised by the Louisiana Returning Board. Itdoes not accord with human ex- perience that the successful perpetrators of gainful frauds grow moral and scrupulous in the progress of their career. It is a strong circumstance against the Returning Board that they destroyed the heavy Tilden majority which appeared on the face of the returns. It is another strong circumstance against them that they resorted to skulking subterfuges, and refused the Committee of Congress which went to New Orleans a sight of the original returns. Still another circumstance against them is their refusal to fill the vacant place in the Board, which would have introduced a dem- ocratic witness of their proceedings. They made their finai determinations in secret, shielded from the observation of any wit- ness who was not also an accomplice. Those strange, skulking proceedings, so fitted to convey an impression of guilt, are fully explained by the testimony of Little- field, their secretary, and of Pickett and Maddox, their accomplices. It will be easier to prove the bad character of these men than to discredit their testimony, which is corroborated at every point by documentary proofs and by comfirmatory circumstances derived. from other sources. Certain it is that the supporters of Mr. Hayes have not ashred of a case unless this ugly testimony can be broken down. Littlefield swears that he deliberately altered and falsified the returns under the direction of Wells, some of the original returns having then been burned and others given to Littlefield to destroy. One of those which he promised to destroy, and told Wells he had destroyed, he took to a Mr. Spearing, his uncle, a republican citizen, who had voted for the Hayes electors, whose sense of justice was so shocked that he took measures for having the frand in- vestigated. He induced Littleticld to make with him a long journey to Spring- field, Il., taking the document by which the charge of fraud is proved, and all the circumstances were frankly explained to ex-Governor Palmer of that State. It is through this channel that the House com- mittee has been furnished with the clew and the materials for the investigation whose results are so startling. Nothing ever equalled the surprise and consternation of Wells and his confedorates when they found that the committee was in possession of damning documents which they thought destroyed, and had got hold of witnesses who knew all the facts, There is also some not very convincing documentary confirmation of the evidence that this precious set of rascals made ovor- tures to the friends of Mr. Tilden to sell the Returning Board and the vote of Loui- sinna fer the good round sum of a million dollars. Mr. Maddox is the alleged inter. mediary for this transaction, An temperature and gradually clearing weather tweracl minke This is the story; but as Mr. Hewitt has not yet testified we suspend our judgment as to its authenticity. It has ob- vious elements of improbability, while the charges against the official action of the Re- turning Board are supported by a great weight of antecedent probability as well as of direct proof. Laying the alleged offer of sale quite out of consideration there re- mains such a mass of direct and circumstan- tail evidence that the count of the Returning Board was a disgraceful compound of frand, forgery and perjury, concocted by Wells and his associates, that there seoms but a slender prospect of its successful refutation. Rapid Transit and Business Men. A delegation of ‘business men” called on Mayor Ely yesterday to protest against the construction of the elevated rapid transit road on Sixth avenue, It would, they al- leged, injure property on that avenue ten million dollars, which amount, being de- ducted from the assessment rolls, would add just so much more taxation on each tax- payer. They proposed as a remedy that the road, if built at all, ought to be built on Fifth avenue, which runs through the heart of the city, passing the principal hotels and the Grand Central depot. As, however, the damage to property would be move than a hundred times as great on Fifth avenue as on Sixth, and the loss to the assessment ! rolls would be larger in comparison, the suggestion is scarcely consistent with the delegation’s argument. We may, therefore, suppose it to have been a sly little slap in the face administered to what one of the speakers called “the aristocratic houses on j the other side of Washington Park,” and not seriously meant, Wherever a rapid transit road goes it will meet with opponents, and probably do dam- age tosomebody. But where fifty ‘‘busi- ness men” from Sixth avenue call on the Mayor to oppose rapid transit, fifty thou- sand other business men would call on him to favor and promote it. If property in one locality would be depreciated ten million dollars by a rapid transit road, property in other localities would be appreciated by it fifty million dollars. As Mayor Ely says, it is to be hoped that the problem may be solved without infringing private rights, but a million people want rapid transit and will have it, even if all the business men on Sixth avenue, instead of only a small por- tion of them, should oppose it. Missing Boys. From some aspects of the case it might be thought there is a superfluity of boys; for the police report them as found astray at all hours of the day and night, and in all streets and alleys, corners and public places; and it will be remembered that in the Char- ley Koss times several hundred putative Charleys were discovered who seemed to have no particular owners. But from some other aspects of the case it might be thought that the boy of the period, so far from being superfluous, is scarce, rare, and | high priced, This is the way it probably strikes the police when a general alarm is sent out with regard to some particular hopeful who has just dis- appeared behind a schoolhouse or a kid- napper’s cloak, orit may be behind the greater obstructions that will forever hide him from the doting eyes at home. It ap- pears, therefore, that it is only the distribu- tion of boys.that is defective. There are too many of them in some places and not enough of them in others, wherefore we see them so lightly regarded in certain families that it is not esteemed a misfortune if they carry themselves off and gravitate tothe News- boys’ Lodging House, while in other fami- lies some little whiffet with blue eyes and curly hair is valued at from nine hundred and fifty thousand toa million dollars. This is inequality in its grossest and most glaring form ; but what are you going to do about it? No clearing house or exchange for averaging the distribution of boys can overcome the difficulty, because of the in- eradicable prejudices that people have in favor of some particular boy. Therefore untreasured boys must continue to swarm on the world and treasured ones to be lost, and the police must do the best they can to get rid of the one sort and find the other, as people are understood to do about every- thing in Spain. But to the cool fellows who sit up high and take philosophic views, un- prejudiced by any affection, it probably seems comical that the world should be ran- sacked to find any one boy, when in these winter nights bright fellows from five to twelve are found asleep all about us on the stone steps and doorways for want of homes, The Brooklyn Traged The Coroner's jury in the case of the great Brooklyn tragedy rendered a verdict yester- day. They censure the management of the theatre for the lack of responsibility and discipline among the employés, the in- adequacy of the appliances for extinguish- ing fires, the overcrowding of the stage with old scenery, and the closing of the means of exit from the dress circle to Flood’s alley. The jury append to their verdict a recom. mendation that in the erection of theatres there should be a brick wall extonding from cellar to roof dividing tho stage from the auditorium. In some theatrical exhibitions this would be a decided adventage to the audience if strictly carried out. But we presume the jury intends that there should be such an opening in the brick wall as would enable the andience to see the actors, with the additional provision, prob- ably, ofa fireproof screen which could be used to shut off the stage from the auditorium in case of fire. The other recommendations of the jury are for a proper supply of fire hydrants and hose, the frequent testing of their effective condi- tion, the attachment of a fire brigade to every place of public amusement, wide stairways from the galleries, incombustible scenery and the proper protection of border lights. It is to be hoped that the pre- cantions born of the terrible calamity in Brooklyn will never be relaxed, Lrriux Spitz is a very pretty dog and a great favorite with ladies and children, but he is treacherons, snappish, and will bite on slight provocation, or without any provoca- his is said to have approached Mr. Hewitt, j tion at all, Recollect that his bite is sure | who promptly declined the proposition. | to bo followed by bydrophobio and death. ; would probably prove profitable ertablish- Has Judge Miller Expressed an Opinion on the Election? A correspondent sends us from New Or- leans the substance of a letter on the subject of the Presidential election and the events which followed thereafter, alleged to have been written in December Inst by Associate Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, and now one of the Electoral Com- missioners, Before publishing the commu- nication, which will be found in the Hrrarp to-day, we caused inquiry to be made at ‘Washington as to whether Judge Miller had really written such a letter, and received a very positive denial, which in justice we append to the correspondence. We do not feel at liberty to suppress the story, since a confirmatory report has reached us from another source, and a denial made on a general statement of the contents of such a letter might, while strictly truthful, fail to cover the whole question of its existence. No intelligent American can have failed to form an opinion, based on such informa- tion as he possessed, on the questions that have agitated the whole nation since the ; election. To consider such an opinion a disqualification tor the Electoral Commis- sion would be to sweep the commission out of existence altogether. Mr. Morton and Mr. Garfield aro certainly supposed to have formed opinions on the subject of the Presi- dential dispute, and so, indeed, are all the other Senators and Representatives on the commission. There is nothing more in the sentiments and views attributed to Judge Miller in December last to disqualify him from acting as an Electoral Commissioner than there would be if he had expressed the belief that democratic frauds had been perpetrated in Mississippi and Louisiana, and that Hayes was entitled to the votes of both those States and had been fairly elected. The commission is called upon now to decide questions of law and of fact on the evidence before them, and every per- son who knows Judge Miller will have full confidence in his entire impartiality and will feel assured that his judgment will be rendered with spotless integrity. The Charity Ball. This evening the grand Charity Ball, in which New York annually reconciles pleas- ure and duty, will be given at the Academy of Music. It has always been one of the most brilliant events of the year, and this season it will be as attractive as ever. The long list of ladies and gentlemen who have taken an active interest in the ball has been already published, and it is only necessary to say that they represent the best classes of society. A charity ball has peculiar ele- ments of enjoyment. It does not end when the lights are out and the garlands faded, but the spirit of delight becomes afterward the angel of benevolence. Certainly no maiden will dance with less joy for the knowledge that every step of the quadrille, every turn of the waltz, will bring relief to some humble home. Pleasure, when it is unaccompanied by a useful purpose, is, like those birds of paradise created without feet, perpetually on the wing, and ceaseless in its restless flight; but our amusements are transfigured into noble and gracious forms when they become the servants of generosity, Concerning Compromise. Many opponents to the Electoral law seemed to believe while that measure was under discussion that they uttered a wither- ing condemnation of it, if not a complete answer to all arguments in support of it, by calling it a compromise. It was pointed out in the President's Message, and very con- vincingly in Senator Conkling’s argument, that the measure was not properly desig- nated by that name. But suppose it had been. How long is it since it became a shame or a scandal in this country for po- litical parties to settle by compromise differ- ences otherwise irreconcilable? Since when did the word ‘‘compromise” become a re- proach? Is not compromise the corner stone of our political fabric, and is not the spirit of compromise an essential element of every republican system? From one end to the other of our political history we are steeped in the atmosphere of compromise, Our constitution is but a series of compro- mises. And this flows from the nature of the case. Party divisions of a people result in extremely different views of every great case that arises, and while the division is at all equal one party cannot govern in abso- Inte defiance of the other, and cannot pass | any measure of importance save by the con- sent of the other, and to obtain this it must yield some portion of its extreme views, Compromises, therefore, so far from being scandalous, are commonly guarantees against the prevalence of extreme and therefore dangerous councils. ‘They have | hitherto been regarded in constitutional countries as evidences of wisdom and moderation in politics, In the Latin coun- tries, where men are nothing if not extreme, whero there is no fair tolerance of political difference, it is believed to be shameful to admit that there is any reason or right in the opponent's view. Are we catching that | fever? ————————_|+—- An Institution We Need. Several gymnasiums well supplied and at- tended and in different parts of the city | ments to their proprietors. Nothing elabor- ate is needed—a comfortable and comino- dious room, well aired and lighted, and supplied with only the common and simpler apparatus, suitable bath and dressing rooms, and a man in charge qualified for his place being quite enough. Of the ex- ceedingly few exercising halls in this city there is not one worthy of the name which is free from very serious faults, two of the best known being one in a cellar, the other directly over a stable, where, especially in the dressing rooms, the air, instead of being pure and bracing, is rank with the smell of decaying manure and kindred perfumes. Within a quarter of a mile of the Fifth Avenue Hotel let some enterprising man hire a roomy and cheerful hall, put in a few hundred dollars’ worth of well built and sensible apparatus, advertise it well and place in control a man not familiar with the trapeze and the other dangerous and quite unnecessary farniture too common in such lille, but who shall combine, with a sur- to tell at sight where one is weak and just what will make him strong. Let him reso- lntely keep out all huge dumbbells and eumbrous lifting machines, and confine his régime to work which will invigorate and bring symmetry and general health rather than great but useless power in afew muscles. With classes at work punctually at the times named, with rates not higher than a dollar a month, such o man would be doing # very valuable service to thousands of young men in our great city who, earning little more than their board, are at a loss what to do with their evenings, A Narrow Escape. The picture of a grinning madman mounted at midnight ona freight car to watch the destruction of a train Joaded with passengers in the trap he has prepared for it is not a pleasant one for travellers by rail, yet this picture was a reality a few nights since on the Erie Railway. Perhaps on most other roads in the country this mad- man’s drama would have ended ina slaughter | not less terrible than that at Ashtabula, but the excellent system of patrol and scrutiny established on this line saved some hundreds of passengers from great injury or horrible death-—-for the “track walker” discovered the madman’s trap before the prey had reached it—and an express train coming at thirty miles an hour was stopped by signal within a few fect of the obstacle. Every man, woman or child in that train had es- caped very narrowly with life; had stood at the edge of «chasm in which the eye of imagination sees the Ashtabula, Angola and other similar horrors. All this was pro- duced by the wild fancy of a lunatic under the influence of religious excitement and the Moody ond Sankey ‘‘evangelism.” Is that lunatic to go at large again and roam unrestrained in that part of the coun- try, or any other part of the country where there are railroads? This is a point of some importance, All this horrible machi- nation of conspiracy against railway trains is of recent development; and our criminal law is, it is to be feared, not adequately pro- vided with restraints for even the wretches who plan these calamities in their sane mo- ments with a cool eye to plunder, while as to those whose responsibility is modified by mental derangement it is probably worse still. The attempt to throw a railway train from the track should be assimilated in our law to arson in the first degree and be made punishable with death; and, should the cul- prit be found irresponsible by reason of lunacy there should at least be authority to keep him as long as necessary in asafe place. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A Paris poet calls Paris the Holy City. London consumes 300,000 grouse in a season. The Younger brothers are painting pails in State Prison. ‘The great chestnut tree mn the Tuileries Gardens has buds on it, A Washington lady’s trousscau consisted of two pairs of red stockings. An Irishman thought that the officer who came to get the impost was an Impostor. A Scotch boy sbot an owl, aud when he tried to got it thought it was “a cherubim.”” ‘The Esquimaux have no king. Here is achance for General Grant to set up in business. ‘A largo vegetable market at Edinburgh has been turned into a promenade concert garden, ‘When a newspaper man leaves the Grand Central Ho- tel without paying ois bill they say he has gone by the board. Altred Brisbane, who started the Socialist fellows in business nearly half a century ago, Is still writing trom Buffalo, When Justice Bradley lived in Newark there was not a mosquito that dared to tackle him ona question of possession, The Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel says that the war bonds of that State ought to be paid toa native before any ante-war bond is paid to some Yankee who, perhaps belonging to Sherman’s bummors, shot a Southern man, Jones came home late with a lodge odor about him, and when Mrs. Jones was calming him down with a bootjfck he said, “Mariar, these night sessions is tedious. ’Move the Senate divides on the previous question. ’” Justice Bradley loves to sit up all night over a mathematical problem; and when he goes out in the morning to see whether aay bas dawned he kicks the milk pitcher into the middle of the street, He has a temper like an isosceles triangle. When a United States Senator arises and demands that, for the sake of the dignity of the Senate, the galleries be cleared of persons who applaud, be is prob- ably one whose position was purchased, Chatham street Senators are always dignified, Boston Globe :—"1 went to seo my girl the other day,” says Our Dan; “I kissed her repeatedly, aud when I finally coased the tears came into her eyes, and she suid, in sad tones, ‘Ab, Van! I fear you have ceased to Jove me!’’ “Oh, no, I haven’t,’? I said, “but 1 must breathe. ’”” ‘A Western paper, receiving the despatch that Tom Folie had shot” his hand off while ongaged iu an ille- gitimate act, wrote up the affair as if a great despe- rado, in attempting to bull-dozo a whole county, bad met with atimely fate. It turned out that Tom is a boy of ten who was trying to pepper a cat, It is said of Justice Bradley who, though the fifth Judge on tho bench, ts the first man im tho country, that when he used to receive a pair of pantaloons from the tailor’s and be could not easily get his feet down through the legs he woald stick his fect into the knees, givo a long pull and jerk them all to pieces, Here 15 justice tempered with mercy. One Way in the early times of the Republic a plain, tall man, with corrugated brows, stopped ata farm hone, near Washington, D.C. He was a philosopher anda great Jorist, Satd he to the farmer, ‘Have you avy black walnuts, or fall pipping, or nico sausages, or pork stew for supper?” Boys, this was Jobo Mar- shall, Cotof Justice of the United States, The wives of # Vacha have separate suits of apart. ments, or hive tn houses communicating with each other, and exchange ceremonious visits, perbaps two | or three times a week, when they recline on the same divan, call each other kadesh (sister), and between the whills of their chibouques retail the incidents of the visits thoy have paid and received, Justice Bradley is a man of quick temper. When a Inwyer he used to go into the office ofa brother lawyer and look at a new edition ofa law book. If ho found several pages of advertisements of other law books he would tear then; out, with exclamations of anger, and throw them on the floor, saying that if a publisher soid a book for a high price he had no right to intrude his business upon a library, Hore is anger tempored with justice. Poetesses, with gold chains round their necks and spit curls round their cars, and a weariness of the silken eyelash which telis of midnight strivings with the ultimate and penultimate, and the memphremagog and the magnetic agamemnon and gam drops, are now pettiahly awaiting tho advent of gentle springtime, when they may go out and pluck the first coy violet that wakens from the winter dream beneath its covertet of snow—boy, bring us some médre foolscap. Hore is the bill of tare for one day at Momorial Hat, Harvard :—Brenkfast—Wutton hop, fried codfish, baked potatoes, cold meats, hominy und cracked wheat, wh te, Graham and trown bread, Graham rolls, raised Diseutt, tea and coffee, Lnneh—-Fish chowder, plain cake, white and Graham bread, apple sauce, cracked whoat and hominy, cocqa ana tea, Dinnor —Vermuolli Kop, Toast turkey, roast goose, apple sauce; cold geon’s or anatomist’s knowledge of the human bones and thews and sinews, ability | colory, white and Grabom bread, tapioca padding, TELEGRAPHIC N&WS From All Parts of the World. A LULL IN THE EAST, The Direct Negotiations Between Turkey and Servia GERMAN ANSWER TO FRENCH CRITICISM, Archbishop Ledochowski Served with a Gere man Summons in Rome, RINDERPEST IN ENGLAND, [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loypow, Feb, 1, 1877. question presents nothing of interest No new fact has beon brought to light, feature in the diplomacy of any of The Eastern this morning, aud no new the Powers interested directly in the question has been developed, so that the newspapers have nothing to speculate upon The subject ts becoming threadbare, and yet Europe still waits with bated breath, not knowing whother the spring may bring on a war with all its horrors, or whether the in- evitable struggle may be postponed for a year or two, If present indications aro to be relied on Russia seems anxious that Servia and Montenegro should make peace with the Porte, but whether she intends thap peaco to bo lasting or not is not clear yot. A RUSSIAN ADVOCACY OF PEACE IN BERVIA, Addespatch from St. Potersburg says:—“The Golos says no sensible Russian can desire a renewal of the Servian war. The advance ot tho Turks to Belgrade would disturb triendly relations between the Powers which now constitute the only basis upon which in- fluence can profitably be brought to bear upon Turkey. If, on the otber hand, Servia obtains peace on satistac- tory conditions the task undertaken by the Powers 0 settling tho difficulties will be considerably facili, tated.” THK AMBASSADORS STILT LEAVING. A despatch from Constantinoplo says the Count Chandordy, the French Plenipotentiary to tho tate Conference, and Count Corti, the Italian Ambaesaior, leit there on Tuesday. A NEW RUSSIAN PLAN, ABerlin despatch says that after much hesitation Russia seems to have decided upon a peculiar plan. The present state of things, which is neither peace nor war, is to be indefinitely prolonged. Russia does notcare to encounter the Turkish troops in their present condition, nor does she wish to abandon the campaign altogether, She trusts she can support the strain of prolonged mobilization botter than Turkey. THE TROOPS TO BE KEPT ON THE FRONTIER, Sho will, therefore, keep troops on the frontier, thus compelling Turkey to do the same. If Turkey follows Russia’s example it ia expected that before many months the people will demand peace at any price be- cause of the consequent financial collapse. THE PRUTH PROBABLY TO BE CROSSED. If, however, Turkey in desperation decides to antic!- pate a Russian attack, the Russians are sufficiently confident of the result, as they would then fight in their own country. The Russians, in order to redouble their pressure on Turkey, will probably cross the Pruthb, if not immdeiately at least at a later stage. PREPARING FOR THE ULTIMATE STRUGGLE. It is not likely she will attempt the Danube until Turkey’s fighting spirit is sousiblv diminished by delay. With a view to these contingencies the Russian army 18 continually beiug imcreased, while all the Southern fortresses are being made ready for defence. It is because of thes) circumstances Turkey thinks it necessary to ask Servia for guarantees against partici- pation in a possible resumption of hostilities, RUSSIAN EFFORTS TO RAISE MONEY. A Vienna correspondent reports that Russia bas made fresh but unsuccessful attempts to raisea loan jn Amsterdam and Germany, and will be obligea to have recourse to the increase of her floating debt and igsue treasury bones. ARMING FOR A GREAT STRUGGLE, Russia is employing her time well. War prepara- tions are continued with energy, and on a larger scale than before. Nothing has been done hitherto which would indicate that the begiuning of a war is very close at hand, but the preparations leave no doubt of tho determination to follow up the war if it breaks out. The reserve observed hitherto and the severish activity Inarming may be taken aa a tolera- bly sure sign that Russia will not speak until she 1s quite prepared for any contingency which may follow, GERMAN ANSWER TO FRENCH CRITICISM. The semi-offictal Provinzial Correspondenz repro- duces an article from the Révue des Deux Mondes warn- ing Sweden and Denmark against Germany’s covetous- tollows:—"The ness, and comments thereon as French press is repeating the frivolous game which it played two yeara ago of insulting and challenging Germany with the re- served intention of complaining of throats of coercion when Germany, as ts natural, repels these insults.’? RINDERPEST IN ENGLAND. A special supplement of tho Gazette was published yesterday evening announcing that in consequence of the appearance of the rinderpest in Limehouse parish, asuburb of this city, the Privy Council have ordered that no cattle, sheep or goats be allowed to leave London. . ARCHNISHOP LEDUCHOWSKI. The Diritlo announces that an officer of the Roman Correctional Tribunal has served Archbishop Ledo- chowski with a copy of indictment and summons to appear before tho Posen tribunal to answer for breaches of the German law, SMALLPOX. There were eighty-six deaths from smallpox in Lon- don Inst week. RELIEF FOR PONDICHERRY. The Senate yesterday passed the grant for the reliet of the fumino-stricken inhabitants of Pondicherry, THE BRAZILIAN CABLE. The section of the Brazihan telegraph cable between Rio Janeiro and Bahia has been repaired. BAD FATE OF GERMAN EXPLORERS, Herr Barth, the German explorer, who was engaged jn surveying the Portuguese possessions in Africa tor the government of Portugal, has committed suicide in Loanda while delirious with fever. Herr Mohr, another German explorer, who belonged to the ex dition which was searching for tho sources of the Congo River, is dead. THE PRICK OF STLVER, Silver is quoted to-day at 57\,d. per ounce, India Council bills were allotted to-day at about 4, per rupee decline, MEXICO, THE CONFLICT IN [SONORA—PROSPECTS OF THE CONTENDING FACTIONS. Sav Francisco, Jan, 31, 1877, In Sonora Pesquiera holds the most of the eastern portion of the State, bat it is gonerally understood that Mariscal has the support of the best people and will conquer peace. SENTENCED FOR MURDER. Dernorr, Jan, $1, 1877, Marine Smith, the murderer of young McKeon, was to-day sentenced by Recorder Simith to twonty-tive years at bard labor in State Prison FATAL SKATING ACCIDENT. Fivsmixa, N.¥., dan, 31, 187% Addlo Baird, aged seven years, whilo ekating on @ tongue and ham, musbed and vorled potatoes, turnips, pond at Riverhead this afternoon, broke through the ce and was drowned,